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Google Advertising Gmail

As you can see in the below screenshot, Google is advertising its brand new Gmail service via Adwords. All signs seem to indicate that this is no April fool’s joke.

Slashdot Comments on Google Gmail

This is just so darn interesting. Slashdot | Google’s Gmail To Offer 1GB E-mail Storage? Re:It’s no lie…. (Score:5, Informative) by mac-diddy (569281) on Wednesday March 31, @06:13PM (#8732700) whois shows that the domain gmail.com was created back on Aug 13, 1995 [whois.net], which is actually before google.com domain was created (Sep 15, 1997 [whois.net])….Continue Reading…

Google Launches Gmail

Google will be launching a free email service providing 1 GB (yes, one gigabyte) of storage for every single user! Is it an April Fool’s joke? Not really sure! By the way, Gmail is an awesome name in my opinion – try saying it aloud and comparing it with the word E-mail. The official press…Continue Reading…

Freelance Bush ad

Here’s an awesome freelance ad for Bush. (Update: it’s down, so I removed the link. It used to be http://members.cox.net/macallan_the/GW/GWBush1_Start.htm.) It seems the administration has been ineffective at presenting the case for the Bush economy, which from what I understand, is better in many ways and equal in others to the Clinton economy at the…Continue Reading…

Interesting Analysis of an Outsourcing Report

Wired News: Outsourcing Report Blames Schools The American school system, which AeA researchers charge is failing to provide strong science and math education to students, is largely to blame for lost jobs, according to the AeA’s report, “Offshore Outsourcing in an Increasingly Competitive and Rapidly Changing World.” Good in that there’s more demand for me,…Continue Reading…

Security Flaw in Internet Explorer

Slashdot | Yahoo and Hotmail Filter Flaw GreyMagic Software, an Israeli computer security firm, has discovered a serious security flaw in Yahoo and Microsoft’s email services which allows hackers to run malicious programs on users’ computers. According to the website, all attempts to contact Yahoo unfortunately failed. Here’s the interesting part: the exploit works only…Continue Reading…